Hot! Don Grady

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) Don Grady , that was one particular associated with television's nearly all much loved big brothers when Robbie Douglas about the long-running 1960s hit "My Three Sons," passed on Wednesday. He appeared to be 68.

His "My Three Sons" co-star Barry Livingston, that performed most youthful brother Ernie, tested Grady's demise to The Associated Press. Livingston explained Grady have been troubled out of malignancy and receiving hospice proper care from his property inside Thousand Oaks, Calif. But the precise lead to and place connected with dying ended up possibly not immediately clear.

"It's that older cliche on this planet while TV siblings start referring to one another similar to natural brothers, nevertheless he appeared to be your oldest, plus somebody I looked as long as and learned out of a great deal about life," Livingston said.

Born throughout San Diego while Don Louis Agrati, Grady acquired a short stint vocal and dancing on "The Mickey Mouse Club" commencing at age 13.

But they ended up being best known by far and away jointly of Fred MacMurray's "My Three Sons" for the collection that played on ABC in addition to later on CBS from 1960 for you to 1972.

The favorite show, which often highlighted MacMurray as a new widowed aeronautical engineer struggling in order to raise a few older boys, seemed to be among the best managing family members sitcoms of them all together with 380 episodes.

In the show's previous years Douglas had been in fact the center brother, using Tim Considine trying to play the particular oldest, Mike, plus Stanley Livingston playing the actual youngest, Chip. When Considine departed, Barry Livingston grew to be your adopted "third" son, and also Grady turned the cool, fine plus confident eldest brother much regarding America adored.

A play prodigy from a fresh age, Grady appeared that has a band, the particular Greefs, inside the series, and throughout true to life performed drums intended for The Yellow Balloon, who had a modest make that has a self-titled track in 1967.

He produced several client shows on TV collection inside the 1970s and 1980s, nevertheless proved helpful primarily like a artist plus composer, crafting the design with regard to "The Phil Donahue Show" along with music for your Blake Edwards film "Switch" as well as the usual Las Vegas exhibit "EFX," a emphasize pertaining to "Phantom from the Opera" star Michael Crawford.

"The just one serious through-line with his your life has been music," Livingston said. "I would likely consider Don sooo want to be remembered intended for his great new music as much as a young adults idol along with television set icon."